Kevin Garside is the Daily Telegraph's golf correspondent.

Max Mosley and the Euston 40

A potentially ruinous detail was buried in the reams of reporting on Max Mosley's High Court privacy action against The News of the World.

We know that the FIA president has a rich and varied sex life. His day in court is about the right to keep his slap and tickle sessions private. Max is on rock hard ground when he argues that his likes and dislikes, as long as they break no law and do not involve coercion, are his business.

The extension of this argument would be that we all have sex, that sex is an acceptable, arguably necessary activity between consenting adults, so let's be grown up about it and get on with life. After all it was not his intention to have all over the papers humiliating accounts of his sexual proclivities.

He is trading on the notion that he is fundamentally a decent fellow engaging in behaviour that is universal in nature, if not detail. To catagorise him therefore as a grubby raincoat type unfit for office is not only damaging it is plain wrong.

I wonder then what the motor racing community will make of the testimony of Woman A, one of the five collaborators in the sado-masochistic orgy in the London apartment rented on his behalf at an annual cost of £35,000?

It transpires that Max does not limit his horizons to episodic role playing in the privacy of his own rented apartment. He also has an ‘interest' in "events shows" organized by Woman A near Euston, where, as my Telegraph colleague described it "up to 30 men pay around £200 to have sex with ten women in a stage-like setting."

Woman A said: "We describe it as like going to the theatre." Then letting loose a detail that I believe could be fatal for Max she added that Mr Mosley had a financial stake in the events and would telephone her three days beforehand to ask "how are the finances looking?"

Participating in a lewd caper with a five willing helpers is one thing, having a financial interest in a tawdry sex den in Euston involving up to 40 people a thrash is of a different order of perversion. It is not like going to any theatre most people would recognise. This paints Max in a deeply unflattering light, and more readily associates him with the kind of behaviour unsuited to one running an international body like the FIA.